The Complete Sam Boone

by Bud Sparhawk

Sam Boone is an interstellar problem solver who manages to dance on the edge of disaster as he deals with some nearly incomprehensible alien races. The story covers the period from his first meeting with aliens to the last story to appear (The Late Sam Boone)

This is the complete collection of humorous Sam Boone stories from Analog magazine (1993-2009).

347 pages, Nook

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Bud Sparhawk is the author of the novels Distant Seas, Dreams of Earth, Shattered Dreams, Magician, and Vixen, as well as two print collections: Sam Boone: Front to Back, and Dancing with Dragons. He has three e-Novels available through Amazon and other channels.

Bud has been a three-time novella finalist for the Nebula award: Primrose and Thorn (Analog, May 1996), Magic’s Price (Analog, March 2001), and Clay’s Pride (Analog, July/August 2004). His work has appeared in two Year’s Best anthologies: Year’s Best SF #11 (EOS), David Harwell-Editor) and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourteenth Annual Collection, (St Martins Press, Garner Dozois – Editor.)

His short stories have appeared frequently in Analog Fact/Fiction, less so in Asimov’s, as well as in five Defending the Future and other anthologies, publications and audio books. He has put out several collections of some of his published works in ebook format. A complete bibliography can be found at: http://budsparhawk.com.

He also writes an occasional blog on the pain of writing at http://budsparhawk.blogspot.com.

Reviews

[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book (a compilation of stories that feature intrepid galactic mediator, SAM BOONE. He's quick on his feet (If being chased); but his impulsivity and recklessness are tempered by a deep down (very far down) morality. Stories have that old school feel (I think these were all individually published in Analog mag or competitors). You can imagine a 60's style tv announcer (superhero tv style): On this episode...

The closest in genre would be the RETIEF series (Keith Laumer) and PLOB series (Craig Zerf).

. If you require hard science or complex world building to enjoy sci-fi (or need "in your face" humour) this book isn't for you (author's other works are well rated hard sci-fi.) This does fit Robert Rankin's aptly (self)named genre of Far Fetched fiction. Enjoy!

[Jeff Rausch · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of Sam Boone short stories. It is Chuck full of humor. It is a must read for fans of Douglas Adams or humor. Adding to the quality of the writing is the afterward by the author telling how Dam came to be.